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under the charge of an individual sufficiently versed in Chemistry to be 

 competent to make the necessary analysis of ores, soils, &c. and to 

 suggest the means of turning those analyses to account. To this 

 individual might also be assigned the care of the Mineralogical records 

 deposited in the Museum, which will probably in no long time become 

 so voluminous as to be altogether useless, unless properly classified and 

 arranged. In our despatch of the 27th May, (No. 5,) 1840, we antici- 

 pated the necessity of the appointment of such an officer, and we shall 

 not object to your assigning a moderate salary to any individual who 

 may be found competent for the discharge of the duties of such a 

 situation. 



No. 14 of 1841. 



Our Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. 



In continuation of our dispatch in this Department, (Museum of 

 Economic Geology,) dated the 8th September last, (No. 13,) we trans- 

 mit for your information copy of a letter (dated 9th Sept. 1841,) which 

 we have received from Mr. Delabeche, and of the Memorandum which 

 accompanied it, on the subject of the establishment of a Museum of 

 Economic Geology in India. 



We are, 



Your loving Friends, 

 (Signed) George Lyall, 

 „ J. L. Lushington, 



„ H. Lindsay, 



„ John Loch, 



„ H. Shank, 



„ J. Petty Muspratt, 



C Mills, 

 J. W. Hogg, 

 „ F. Warden, 



„ John Cotton, 



„ Archdeacon Robertson, 



„ Henry Alexander, 



London, the 2d Nov. 1841, ,, Henry Willock. 



